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1451. |
‘The Two Cultures’ is the title of an influential Rede lecture of |
A. | 1959 |
B. | 1960 |
C. | 1957 |
D. | 1958 |
Answer» B. 1960 | |
1452. |
Mortals and Others is an essay collection by |
A. | Aldus Huxley |
B. | Robert Benchley |
C. | Bertrand Russell |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
1453. |
Which one of following propositions does not belong to Thales credit? |
A. | Any diameter of the circle divides it into equal parts |
B. | The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal |
C. | When two straight lines cross, the opposite angles are equal. |
D. | Algebraic methods to solve equations of the first and second degree |
Answer» E. | |
1454. |
What is the name of the General of the story ‘My Son, The Physicist’? |
A. | Reiner |
B. | Gerard |
C. | Michel |
D. | Cremona |
Answer» B. Gerard | |
1455. |
Who gave scientific explanation, a theoretical structure? |
A. | Francis Bacon |
B. | Wegener |
C. | Carl Hempel |
D. | Newton |
Answer» D. Newton | |
1456. |
Memoires Scientifiques is a book on |
A. | Greek culture |
B. | Egyptian culture |
C. | Harappa culture |
D. | Byzantine civilization |
Answer» E. | |
1457. |
Which was the first institution devoted to the pursuit of knowledge in the Western world and which lasted for a thousand years? |
A. | Academy |
B. | Ionian school |
C. | Pythagorean school |
D. | Republic |
Answer» B. Ionian school | |
1458. |
What is the problem of English school education that is the pointed out by Snow? |
A. | It is vocational |
B. | It is specialized |
C. | Only few are educated |
D. | Its moral education |
Answer» C. Only few are educated | |
1459. |
Who discovered the Laws of Motion? |
A. | Einstein |
B. | Newton |
C. | Kepler |
D. | Darwin |
Answer» C. Kepler | |
1460. |
Plato was the disciple of…………… |
A. | Aristotle |
B. | Ecphantus |
C. | Socrates |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
1461. |
……. looks for opportunities for using or applying science. |
A. | Pure science |
B. | Applied science |
C. | Technology |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Technology | |
1462. |
Which was the philosophical school founded by Lao Tsu in the 6th century BC? |
A. | Taoism |
B. | Protestantism |
C. | Zen-Buddhism |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Protestantism | |
1463. |
Thales founded the ……… |
A. | Ionian school of philosophy |
B. | Julian Calendar |
C. | Pythagorean school |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Julian Calendar | |
1464. |
Name the person who does not belong to the following Mathematicians of Alexandria |
A. | Apollonius |
B. | Diophantus |
C. | Galen |
D. | Archimedes |
Answer» D. Archimedes | |
1465. |
Who was the Greek God of medicine? |
A. | Appolo |
B. | Zeus |
C. | Aesculapius |
D. | Hercules |
Answer» D. Hercules | |
1466. |
When was the idea of continental drift suggested? |
A. | 1505 |
B. | 1515 |
C. | 1596 |
D. | 1586 |
Answer» D. 1586 | |
1467. |
The New Scientific Mind is a work by ……………. |
A. | Gaston Bachelard |
B. | Isaac Newton |
C. | Einstein |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» B. Isaac Newton | |
1468. |
Stoicism was founded by………. |
A. | Zeno |
B. | Epicurus of Samos |
C. | Euclid |
D. | Socrates |
Answer» B. Epicurus of Samos | |
1469. |
Who performed a simple experiment to calculate the circumference of the Earth two thousand years ago? |
A. | Aristotle |
B. | Alfred Wegener |
C. | Abraham Ortelius |
D. | Eratoshthenes |
Answer» E. | |
1470. |
Who said that “Living creatures rose from the moist element, as it was evaporated by the Sun”? |
A. | Pythagoras |
B. | Anaximander |
C. | Aristotle |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Aristotle | |
1471. |
Philosophy means ……… |
A. | Love of wisdom |
B. | Love of power |
C. | Love of wealth |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Love of power | |
1472. |
The Pylons is a poem by |
A. | W.H Anden |
B. | Stephen Spender |
C. | Cecil day Lewis |
D. | Louis Mac Niece |
Answer» C. Cecil day Lewis | |
1473. |
Aristotle had setup the …………. In opposition to the Academy |
A. | Lyceum |
B. | Republic |
C. | University |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Republic | |
1474. |
Theoretical knowledge deals with ….. |
A. | Applied science |
B. | Technology |
C. | Pure science |
D. | None of these |
Answer» D. None of these | |
1475. |
Raman is sharing his experiences of |
A. | Cambridge |
B. | Presidency College |
C. | St. Xavier’s |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» C. St. Xavier’s | |
1476. |
In practical affairs, the Pythagoreans aimed at a ………. Of society |
A. | Scientific Upliftment |
B. | Technological development |
C. | Moral reformation |
D. | All the above |
Answer» D. All the above | |
1477. |
Aristotle was the disciple of ………… |
A. | Plato |
B. | Socrates |
C. | Theophrastus |
D. | Eudoxus |
Answer» B. Socrates | |
1478. |
…….. is the requirement that all members of a group should share the same ancestor. |
A. | Monophyly |
B. | Taxonomy |
C. | Evolution |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Taxonomy | |
1479. |
The nanoscale is of the order of ……… |
A. | 10‐10m |
B. | 108m |
C. | 10‐9m |
D. | 106m |
Answer» D. 106m | |
1480. |
Bronze Age began in about……….. |
A. | 4000 BC |
B. | 3500 BC |
C. | 2000 BC |
D. | 4500 BC |
Answer» B. 3500 BC | |
1481. |
The number of genes in the human body is ……… |
A. | Between 20 and 250000 |
B. | About 1 million |
C. | Close to 5 million |
D. | Above 1 billion |
Answer» B. About 1 million | |
1482. |
Flamsteed was asked to set up an observatory in Greenwich because …… |
A. | England wanted to build the best observatory in the world. |
B. | Flamsteed was the most celebrated astronomer in Europe. |
C. | A very accurate star chart was needed to be preparewd for navigation. |
D. | There was a great deal of popular interest. |
Answer» D. There was a great deal of popular interest. | |
1483. |
Science is __________________ activity. |
A. | Individual |
B. | Social |
C. | Mandatory |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» C. Mandatory | |
1484. |
Who started building pyramids? |
A. | Egyptians |
B. | Babylonians |
C. | Iranians |
D. | Indians |
Answer» B. Babylonians | |
1485. |
Some of the Alexandrians migrated to ……….. |
A. | Rome |
B. | England |
C. | Athens |
D. | France |
Answer» D. France | |
1486. |
The Ionian school regarded medicine as ………. |
A. | An art |
B. | A science |
C. | A theoxetical science |
D. | A practice |
Answer» B. A science | |
1487. |
Which pyramid contains approximately 3 million cubic meters of stone and the area of the base about 5 hectares? |
A. | Pyramid of Egypt |
B. | Pyramid |
C. | The Great pyramid |
D. | Giza |
Answer» D. Giza | |
1488. |
………is a religion founded primarily on revelations of God to human kind. |
A. | Buddhism |
B. | Jainism |
C. | Revealed Religion |
D. | Unrevealed Religion |
Answer» D. Unrevealed Religion | |
1489. |
The Yangshao culture is well known for its…….. |
A. | Dance |
B. | Painted pottery |
C. | Weaving |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Weaving | |
1490. |
The explosion in _____________ resulted in the cancellation of the license of Alfredsto make explosive |
A. | 1861 |
B. | 1862 |
C. | 1863 |
D. | 1864 |
Answer» E. | |
1491. |
It has been said that the French Revolution was inspired by philosophers. Who among the following philosophers does not belong to this group? |
A. | Rousseau |
B. | Voltaire |
C. | Helvetius |
D. | Descartes |
Answer» E. | |
1492. |
Ptolemy II started the …………. |
A. | Museum |
B. | University |
C. | Scientific school |
D. | Royal Library |
Answer» E. | |
1493. |
……….. holds that science is a dangerous activity. |
A. | Bacon |
B. | Paul Feyerabend |
C. | Chomsky |
D. | C.P.Snow |
Answer» C. Chomsky | |
1494. |
Who was the first and the foremost of the Greek natural philosophers? |
A. | Anaximander |
B. | Thales |
C. | Empedocles |
D. | Anaxagoras |
Answer» C. Empedocles | |
1495. |
Who was the first Emperor of Chin dynasty? |
A. | Liu Pang |
B. | Lao Tsu |
C. | Confucius |
D. | Shih Huang Ti |
Answer» E. | |
1496. |
M.Berthelot disproved theory of ……… |
A. | Evolution |
B. | Natural selection |
C. | Vitalism |
D. | Origin of the universe |
Answer» D. Origin of the universe | |
1497. |
Mac Spaunday poets are otherwise called |
A. | Movement poet |
B. | Lake poets |
C. | The Pylons |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» D. None of the above | |
1498. |
Radio was invented by …….. |
A. | Lovelace |
B. | Marconi |
C. | Graham Bell |
D. | Pascal |
Answer» C. Graham Bell | |
1499. |
____________________ is a character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. |
A. | Caliban |
B. | Miranda |
C. | Ariel |
D. | Options (a) (b) and (c) |
Answer» E. | |
1500. |
Who discovered X‐ray? |
A. | Rutherford |
B. | Konrad Von Rontgen |
C. | J.J. Thomson |
D. | Einstein |
Answer» C. J.J. Thomson | |